US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy believes social media platforms like Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, and X should be legally required to feature health warning labels similar to tobacco and alcohol products. The nation’s chief public health officer wrote an op-ed published in The New York Times on Monday morning, offering some of his strongest condemnations yet […]
AI vocal cloning technology is reportedly already muddying the waters ahead of the 2024 election. According to a statement issued by the New Hampshire attorney general’s office on Monday, a robocall campaign deployed over the weekend used an imitation of President Joe Biden’s voice to urge recipients not to vote in the state’s January 23 […]
Deepfakes are the newest iteration in a long line of media manipulation and misinformation stretching back to the 1800s, and the subject of an exhibit at the Museum of the Moving Image.
Access to information both inside and outside the region becomes critical as the Russian-Ukraine conflict escalates.
Music, TV, films, video games, e-books, digital magazines, and audiobooks had similar impacts on people’s perceived life satisfaction.
The Pentagon removed thousands of photos and videos documenting the Afghanistan War from public domain recently. Task & Purpose got an explanation.
Science reporting is complex, which means it can be easily faked. Know what to look for and you won’t get fooled.
People who use multiple forms of media at the same time routinely do worse on memory tests than those who don’t use many forms of media often.
It may seem that the days of false equivalency in climate change journalism are behind us. But a new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that the media still disproportionately amplifies the views of businesses and coalitions pushing back on climate action.
The human brain is wired to read faces and Momo doesn’t fit the patterns.
